Last updated: 10 February 2026
"Staff enjoy a friendly team culture with consistent staffing and strong safety practices, but activities planning and daily task involvement need more work."
Staff and leaders promoted an open proactive culture to safety events. Incidents were reported and investigated which resulted in lessons learnt and supported continued improvement of practice.
Staff said they enjoyed working at Abi house. “It’s a really nice team, we all get on well together.” Staff told us they valued the time they had to have staff meetings and one to one supervision.
Abi house had a consistent staff team, who knew people well. Some staff had worked at Abi house for several years. The service was fully staffed.
Staff spoke positively about their experience of training and said the more bespoke training around people’s specific health and well-being was particularly useful. “The training and learning never stops, it’s very good.”
Staff told us they were able to talk with the provider and managers when they needed to. One staff member said, “I can speak up. The manager is very approachable.”
There was a positive approach to the planning of activities relevant to people at the service. One person had a therapy cat (an electronic cat) which was used to help a person choose what to do next.
Activities are regular with some nice touches like a therapy cat, but communication tools and getting people involved in daily tasks like cleaning need more work to make the role more varied.
People had mixed experiences of use of communication tools. The provider had not always explored potential communication tools... People did not always have a clear plan to promote active support... One relative said, “[Name of loved one] should help with the cleaning but I think this has dropped off a bit"
AI Generated
Last inspected: June 2025
Management Quality
Well-led: Good
Direct feedback from current and former employees

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